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Some basic String parsing Rules for Regexp::Grammars
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Some basic String parsing Rules for Regexp::Grammars

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kentnl/regexp-grammars-common-string
• Owner: kentnl
• License: other
• Created: 2010-12-25T00:41:46.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-12-15T10:59:27.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-20T23:15:50.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Perl
• Size: 140 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.mkdn
  • Changelog: Changes
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.pod
  • License: LICENSE

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# NAME

Regexp::Grammars::Common::String - Some basic String parsing Rules for Regexp::Grammars

# VERSION

version 1.000003

# SYNOPSIS

    use Regex::Grammars;

    use Regexp::Grammars::Common::String;

    my $re = qr{

        (.*<[String]>)+

        

    }x; #  don't forget the x!

        ...

    if( $content =~ $re ){

        print Dumper( \%/ ); # Praying Mantis operator!?

    }

# DESCRIPTION

[Regexp::Grammars](https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Grammars) is just too useful to not use, but too pesky and confusing for new people.

Some of the more complex things involve string extraction and escape-handling, and I seriously spent the better part 2 hours

learning how to make this work. So, even if this module is not immediately useful, it may serve as an educational tool for

others.

I probably should have delved deeper into the [Regexp::Common](https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Common) Family, but I couldn't find one in there that

did exactly what I wanted.

At present, this module only provides one rule, ["String"](#string), but I will probably add a few more later.

# GRAMMARS

## Regexp::Grammars::Common::String

    

# RULES

## String

For parsing strings like so:

    "Hello"     => 'Hello'

    "Hel\lo"    => 'Hello'

    "Hel\\lo"   => 'Hel\lo'

    "Hel\"lo"   => 'Hel"lo'

It should do a reasonable job of picking up strings from files and properly returning their parsed contents.

It made sense to me to drop the excess `\`'s that are used for escaping, in order to get a copy of the string as

it would be seen to anything else that parsed it properly and evaluated the escapes into characters.

# AUTHOR

Kent Fredric <[email protected]>

# COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Kent Fredric <[email protected]>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under

the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.